Yesterday I was trying to help a friend to get on-line. I told her that the best email option would have been creating a Gmail account. But visiting the site I realized that Gmail is still a "by invitation only" service: you can't get an account unless somebody invites you. Which is kinda hard if you don't have an email account. I was able to create an account inviting myself using a secondary email address, but it's hardly something a regular user would do. Well... they're still in beta after all.

Tags: Gmail, Google